In this review-cum-historical-account from the Summer 2015 edition of Studies, Tom Mooney discusses the background to the European premier of Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night at the Wexford Festival Opera, alongside a history of Wexford’s… Read the Article »“Silent Night” – Wexford, Opera, and the First World War
Renowned Irish academic Maurice Harmon, for many years professor of Anglo-Irish literature at UCD, was a frequent contributor to Studies about contemporary Irish poetry and died last October. The below extract is from an article… Read the Article »Thomas Kinsella as a nature poet
It is a truism of Seamus Heaney criticism that the poet had a very strong sense of place, and particularly a very strong sense of home. In the presentation speech given before Heaney received his… Read the Article »On Heaney, home and homecoming
Kavanagh wrote an important essay in Studies in 1959. It gives an account of what he called his ‘hegira’, his re-birth on the banks of the Grand Canal, as he recovered from his cancer treatment. It was in… Read the Article »The re-birth of Patrick Kavanagh
Eavan Boland (1944-2020) was one of the most important Irish poets of the late twentieth and twenty-first century. Her influence on a whole generation of women writers was immense, both through her own poetical craft… Read the Article »Eavan Boland on women poets in Ireland